Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor Hooton has been chosen primarily because his lectures are given in the laymen's language, but also, he has become a colorful public figure, an abrupt exponent of his theories," the March of Time said yesterday...
...over the country, throttled but still clear and firm shouts of "Nie!" (No!) rang out in answer. It was the voice of Vice Premier Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party, which had chosen the first question on the referendum ("Do you favor abolition of the Senate?"*) for a test of strength. As in France, the Reds wanted a legislature with only one house. Thus it had become a matter of saying yes or no to Communism, and the Communists had no intention of permitting Poland...
...strikes against him. He had had a bad wartime record-he put on shows for Wehrmacht officers during the occupation, and had been jailed as a collaborationist. Then, probably because he thinks of himself as the one man who can fill Nijinsky's pink tights, he had chosen to appear in the narcissistic Afternoon of a Faun, the ballet which combines almost everything that most non-balletomanes dislike about ballet...
...student body as a whole should know that Harvard alone, out of 14 colleges surveyed throughout the country, consents to allow its student legislature to be chosen by appointment. If the elective procedure is capable of providing capable leadership at Cornell, Oberlin, Chicago, Williams and other leading colleges, there is no reason why Harvard need fear smoke-filled rooms and Tammany-style politics. Fraternity blocs, the plague of many student governments elsewhere, could not achieve control on the local scene, where but one-fifth of the electorate belong to social clubs, and where the very nature of the organizations would...
...scrap the present plan of nomination-appointment and substitute a system of free election of representatives. It is generally conceded that the Houses provide a more cohesive group of elective units than do the classes, thus each of the Houses and Dudley should be allotted two representatives, to be chosen by open election in March of each year. The incoming Sophomore class would be represented by four men, to be chosen from the Yard on the same plan. In all cases, nomination for the House elections should be conducted by petition, with modifications of the present plan to insure...